Author’s Note: This is an updating of an article which originally ran on MovieFanFare in September of 2009. In last week’s first half of this two-part retrospective, I told you about the various silent and early animated film versions of…
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Whether you’re traveling by plane, train, automobile, or on foot (like Steve Martin and John Candy)… about to carve the turkey (like Jane Russell)… …or getting in touch with your inner Pilgrim (like Laurel and Hardy), we at MovieFanFare would…
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Ah, 1974. Remember back a half-century ago? President Richard M. Nixon abruptly resigned in the wake of Watergate; Hungarian professor Erno Rubik invented his eponymous cube; and the IMAX movie format made its debut at Expo ’74 in Spokane, the…
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With last weekend’s release of Gladiator II, we thought we’d look back at the many feature films set in the days of Hannibal, the Caesars, Caligula, and Nero. From historical epics to swordplay sagas to musical comedies, lend us your…
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Author’s Note: This is an updating of an article which originally ran on MovieFanFare in September of 2009. They were the most popular children’s books around, with kids eagerly awaiting the release of each new title in the series. Dismissed…
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There’s much anticipation, understandably so, for the forthcoming streaming sitcom A Man on the Inside, which will reunite star Ted Danson with The Good Place’s creator/showrunner Michael Schur. The San Francisco-set series features Danson as former engineering professor Charles Nieuwendyk—retired,…
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Last week we took a quick trip in the Wayback Machine to the year 1924 for a peek at what the top 10 films were a century ago, when America was learning to Keep Cool with Coolidge and the cinema…
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Few actresses could blend flighty and wise, ditzy and vulnerable better than delightful Academy Award nominee Teri Garr, who passed away last month at the age of 79. A Los Angeles native, Garr began her big-screen career as an uncredited…
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Lifted from a planned streaming release into theaters, the appreciative audience response has already proven strong for the high-concept Christmas action-comedy Red One. The scenario finds that Santa Claus (J.K. Simmons) maintains a very high-end operation at the North Pole,…
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Well, there’s roughly seven weeks to go on the calendar, and it looks as though Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Despicable Me 4 will take home top honors in the 2024 box office race, proving yet again that…
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